I remember many instances where I’ve had to be breastfeeding in public.
I don’t have a problem doing so or anything, I just prefer not to.
I prefer to be sitting in a comfortable chair, with a delicious drink of my own, either reading a good book or watching something interesting on TV.
While breastfeeding in public I can’t usually do any of those things.
Irritating, yes.
One instance of breastfeeding in public always stands out in my memory.
It was just under a year ago, Fenix was just barely three months old.
I was out and about at the local Wal-mart, Fenix got hungry. Now what kind of mother would I be to refuse my starving baby girl her food? I am not that kind of mother. I put her needs above my own, found the only available bench (located just inside the entry to Wal-mart) sat myself down and let my baby eat. With no less than a hundred people a minute passing by us I was certain someone would have the nerve to give me a hard time about breastfeeding in public.
I came up with all sorts of come backs to say should anyone have the nerve to hassle me.
It wasn’t long before someone approached me.
“Well,” I thought. ”Here we go.”
I watched the woman walk toward me. With a clenched jaw, and narrowed eyes I was ready to defend myself.
The woman stopped in front of me and smiling said,
“I just wanted to tell you thank you for breastfeeding your baby in public.”
My mouth hung open full of a sarcastic reply which I fortunately managed to close my lips over and swallow.
Instead I smiled back stupidly with absolutely nothing to say back,
I may have mumbled out something to the effect of,
“Uh, your welcome?”
She smiled warmly and explained that she was a breastfeeding specialist, or something along those lines, and that there were so many women who wouldn’t breastfeed in public etc….
Well, after that conversation I sat on that bench in shock.
I had been so prepared for an attack that I was completely caught off guard by someones praise.
I’m just glad it was praise for my actions and not for my ample, milk filled breasts, lol!
@–>–Rose